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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book, XII (search)
d that it was their duty to pay reverence to this form of authority. In England at the present day the authority is not vested in the foot of a Dutchman, but in the coronet of a German; there seems no other difference. A word from the Prince of Wales in London determines not merely the cut of a livery or the wearing of a kid glove, but the good repute of an artist or the bad repute of an actress. If he beckons a poet across the room, the poet feels honored. Indeed, the late Mrs. George Bancn the proud English society of that day, says Thackeray, than that they admired George. When the history of this age comes to be written by some critic as fearless as the author of The Four Georges, does any one doubt that the present Prince of Wales —whom even Punch once represented as following in the steps of his uncle, like Hamlet following the ghost, with Go on! I'll follow thee—will shift his position as hopelessly as did George the Fourth? Which was the most splendid spectacle ever wi